FERS Disability: waiting too long for opm disability retirement

OPM Disability Retirement Wait Processing Time

September 15, 2014

What is the time it takes to process an OPM Disability Retirement application? Most of it depends upon the delays naturally encountered throughout the process itself: the length of time doctors take in compiling the medical information requested; preparation and formulation of one’s Federal Disability Retirement forms, including the Statement of Disability; how long the agency Human Resource Office takes (is it through a local H.R. Office, or through a centralized district human resource office; for Postal employees, everything it submitted through the H.R. Shared Services office in Greesnboro, North Carolina); […]

Medical Disability for Civilian Federal Employees: The Inactivity

July 9, 2014

Waiting upon a third party or entity is often the hardest thing to do. Waiting upon a bureaucratic process is an exponential aggravation of that same hardest thing to do, because one cannot fathom a reason or rationale for such dependency of unproductive time. […]

OPM Disability Retirement: The Problem of Perhaps

January 4, 2014

Perhaps it is time to approach the problem from a different perspective; perhaps it is not. We often engage in games of self-delusions, of allowing words of self-justification to interfere with sequential and linear lines of thinking, in order to bypass the harsh reality […]

Early Medical Retirement for Disabled Federal Workers: Cocoons

September 21, 2013

A cocoon both insulates and protects; it allows for the entity inside to feel a sense of security, and provides a veil which prevents “outsiders” from seeing in. Homes for humans provide a cocoon; thoughts hidden in the recesses of one’s mind constitute a metaphorical […]

Postal and Federal Disability Retirement: The Agency & the Burden of Proof

September 11, 2013

In a Federal Disability Retirement case, submitted to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether under FERS or CSRS, the burden of proving one’s medical inability to perform one or more of the essential elements of one’s job, always remains with the individual […]

Federal Disability Retirement: Wait-time Extended

June 8, 2013

The time which takes from the assignment of a case number in Boyers, PA, to a decision rendered by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C., has been extended. Recent articles regarding this issue have been slow to reveal the underpinnings of this […]

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Tag: waiting too long for opm disability retirement

OPM Disability Retirement Wait Processing Time

Medical Disability for Civilian Federal Employees: The Inactivity

OPM Disability Retirement: The Problem of Perhaps

Early Medical Retirement for Disabled Federal Workers: Cocoons

Postal and Federal Disability Retirement: The Agency & the Burden of Proof

Federal Disability Retirement: Wait-time Extended

Disability Retirement for Federal Government Employees: The Automatic Pilot

Disability Retirement for Federal Government Employees: Random Decisions

Federal Employee Medical Retirement: The Pilot

CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: The Psychological Process